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Claude Sonnet 5
● liveShipped Jun 30. On the board as live since 2026-06-30 — the watchers keep tracking it: lineup changes, pricing moves and deprecations all alert.
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#20 of 40 on the coding index, at 51.2 · combines LMArena · Coding, LiveBench · Coding, Vals Vibe Code Bench
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Where to use Claude Sonnet 5
44 providers list Claude Sonnet 5 in the models.dev catalog (as of 2026-10-27), under the model ids shown below.
claude-sonnet-5anthropic.claude-sonnet-5 · au.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5 · eu.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5claude-sonnet-5@defaultclaude-sonnet-5@defaultclaude-sonnet-5claude-sonnet-5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5claude-sonnet-5claude-sonnet-5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5claude-sonnet-5Also listed by Cloudflare AI Gateway, CommandCode, Cortecs, CrossModel, DevPass (LLM Gateway), Eden AI, GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo, Impossibl, Kenari, Kilo Gateway, LLM Gateway, Merge Gateway, Model Oracle AI, NanoGPT, NEAR AI Cloud, Neon, Ofox, OpenCode, Opper, OrcaRouter, Perplexity Agent, Pioneer, Prime Inference, Requesty, Snowflake Cortex, Standard Compute, Tempr Gateway, UnoRouter, Venice AI, Vivgrid, ZenMux.
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Claude Sonnet 5: quick answers
Is Claude Sonnet 5 out?
Yes. Claude Sonnet 5 is live and has been since June 30, 2026.
When was Claude Sonnet 5 released?
June 30, 2026.
Is Claude Sonnet 5 good for coding?
On the ArtificialWatch coding index it scores 51.2, #20 of 40 ranked models. The index combines LMArena · Coding, LiveBench · Coding and Vals Vibe Code Bench, taking the median of each model's percentile across them.
Who makes Claude Sonnet 5?
Anthropic. ArtificialWatch also tracks Claude Haiku 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mythos 5.1, Claude Opus 5, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from Anthropic.
Where can I use Claude Sonnet 5?
44 providers list it in the models.dev catalog, including Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex, Vertex (Anthropic) and Azure. The exact model ids each one lists are on this page.
How much does Claude Sonnet 5 cost?
Anthropic's own API lists Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5) at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, and $0.20 per million cached input tokens. Prices as published in the models.dev catalog, as of 2026-10-27.
What is Claude Sonnet 5's context window?
1M tokens, with up to 128K output tokens per response, as Anthropic lists Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5).
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